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MUGSHOTS.COM - ** EXONERATED **: BALTIMORE MAN EXONERATED BY DNA EVIDENCE AFTER SPENDING 17 YEARS IN PRISON FOR A MURDER HE DID NOT COMMIT
— 5/15/2016

Mugshots.com Writing Staff. Baltimore, MD – Malcolm Jabbar Bryant, 42, has been exonerated and freed from prison after serving 17 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit. DNA evidence cleared him of the crime, and prosecutors dropped the charges against him. He was freed a few hours after that.

Bryant was convicted of the 1998 killing of 16-year old Toni Bullock and sentenced to life in prison. On November 20, 1998, Bullock and her friend were walking home from a neighborhood drugstore when a man dragged Bullock into a vacant lot and stabbed her to death. Police presented her friend with a photo lineup that included Bryant’s picture. She identified him as the killer.

Her eyewitness identification was the only evidence against Bryant, who has steadfastly maintained his innocence from his arrest to his eventual exoneration. He also produced multiple alibi witnesses in his defense but to no avail. Based on the shockingly flimsy evidence of a single eyewitness who caught only a very brief glimpse of the assailant on a rainy evening under extreme duress, Bryant was convicted of murder and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. It boggles the mind how any juror, let alone prosecutor, can believe that such an identification is accurate beyond a reasonable doubt.

Following his conviction, Bryant exhausted all his appeals. The University of Baltimore’s Innocence Project eventually took up his case. There was DNA evidence belonging to the perpetrator under the victim’s fingernails and on a T-shirt. But the original prosecutor on the case refused to have the items DNA tested. After several years working on Bryant’s case, the Innocence Project managed to obtain court orders for DNA testing, which revealed that Bryant’s DNA did not match that of the assailant.

It’s shameful that any prosecutor would actively resist the performance of any legitimate testing that could exonerate a wrongfully convicted person as prosecutors on Bryant’s case had reportedly done for years. As the attorney with the Innocence Project who helped free Bryant said it is a prosecutor’s job not only to convict the guilty, but also to clear those wrongfully convicted.

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